Faculty - Shaleen Jain
Shaleen
Jain, Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cooperating Assistant Professor, Climate Change Institute
Boardman Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5711
Phone: (207) 581-2420
Fax: (207) 581-3888
Email:
Shaleen.Jain@umit.maine.edu
Website:
Education:
Ph.D. -
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Utah State University,
Logan, 2001.
M.S. - Civil & Environmental Engineering
Utah State University,
Logan, 1998.
B.Tech. - Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1993.
Courses:
CIE 455 Hydrology
CIE 598 Physical Hydrology
CIE 598 Quantitative Methods in Water Resources
CIE 598 Managing our Water Resources
Research Interest:
Hydroclimatology, Environmental Flows, Climate Variability and
Change, Hydrosystems Modeling, Adaptive Management and Decision
Analysis.
Selected Publications:
Jain, S., C. A. Woodhouse, and M. P.
Hoerling (2002), Multidecadal streamflow regimes in the interior
western United States: Implications for the vulnerability of
water resources. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(21), 2036. AGU
Editor’s Choice: Surface Processes
Jain S., M. Hoerling, and J. Eischeid
(2005), Decreasing reliability and increasing synchroneity of
western North American streamflow. Journal of Climate 18(5),
613. Editor’s Choice: Science [Smith 308 (5720):326a]
Jain, S., and J.
K. Eischeid (2008), What a difference a century makes:
Understanding the changing hydrologic regime and storage
requirements in the Upper Colorado River basin, Geophysical
Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2008GL034715, in press.
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